About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

November 14......

November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 47 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 1558 Dutch Anabaptist reformer Menno Simons wrote in a letter: 'We ought not to dread death so. It is but to cease from sin and to enter into a better life.'

● 1739 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in his journal: 'We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts.'

● 1741 In Wales, English revivalist George Whitefield, 27, married widow Elizabeth Burnell, 36. (Whitefield apparently did not allow marriage to interrupt his evangelistic activities, since he was not home when their first child was born.)

● 1784 Samuel Seabury, 55, was consecrated Bishop of Connecticut and Rhode Island, the first bishop of the American Protestant Episcopal Church, and the first Anglican bishop in America.

● 1832 - The first streetcar - a horse-drawn vehicle called the John Mason - went into operation in New York City. The vehicle had room for 30 people.

● 1843 - Flora Tristan, French feminist/socialist, dies.

● 1851 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers, New York - after it was first published on October 18, 1851 by Richard Bentley, London.

● 1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.

● 1872 - Large earthquake was used by Roman Catholic priests to justify missionizing the Chelan tribe in Central Washington.

● 1881 - Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for assassinating President James A. Garfield. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.

● 1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began an attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in less than 80 days. Bly succeeded by finishing the journey the following January in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.

● 1909 - Misbegotten birth of Joseph R. McCarthy, anti-communist senator and lunatic from Wisconsin, darling of the U.S. mainstream media until he outlived his usefulness.

● 1910 - Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely performs the first take-off from a ship in Hampton Roads, VA. He took off from a makeshift deck on the light cruiser USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

● 1915 - Booker T. Washington, educator, orator, founder of Tuskegee Institute, dies on the college's campus. Famed African-American educator and leader of the 19th century, whose message of acquiring practical skills and emphasizing self-help over political rights was popular among whites and segments of the African-American community. Aggressively opposed by critics such as W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.

● 1927 - A huge cylindrical gasometer -- the largest in the world -- located in the heart of the industrial center of Pittsburgh, Pa., developed a leak. Repairmen set out to look for it with an open-flame blowlamp, which ignited the five million cu. ft. of natural gas in the tank. Chunks of metal, some weighing more than 100 pounds, were scattered great distances, and the combined effects of air pressure and fire left a square mile devastated. Twenty-eight killed and hundreds injured.

● 1930 - General strike of 250,000 in Madrid, Spain, after police fire into crowd at workers' funeral.

● 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth after its new constitution was approved. The Tydings-McDuffie Act planned for the Phillipines to be completely independent by July 4, 1946.

● 1935 - Hussein, the king of Jordan from 1953 to 1999, was born.

● 1938 - All Jews are expelled from colleges in Germany.

● 1938 - U.S. Supreme Court denies appeal by Siuslaw tribe of Oregon to receive any compensation for their stolen land.

● 1940 - World War II: In Great Britain, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by about 500 German Luftwaffe bombers, destroying most of the English town.

● 1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13.

● 1941 Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship was incorporated in Chicago. An interdenominational organization with chapters at both colleges and schools of nursing, IVCF provides Christian fellowship, nurture and discipleship among Christian college_age students.

● 1943 - During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and all of America's top military brass, narrowly escape disaster aboard the U.S. battleship Iowa, when a live torpedo is accidentally fired at them from a U.S. destroyer.

● 1943 - Ernie Nevers of the St. Louis Cardinals became the first professional football player to score six touchdowns in a single game.

● 1952 - First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.

● 1954 - "Ten Million Americans Mobilized for Justice" began campaign to collect 10 million signatures on a petition ordering the Senate not to censure Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Effort fell about nine million signatures short.

● 1979 - U.S. President Carter froze all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks abroad in response to the taking of 63 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.

● 1980 - Guinea-Bissau government falls.

● 1982 - Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.

● 1983 - The British government announced that U.S.-made cruise missiles had arrived at the Greenham Common air base amid protests.

● 1986 - Ivan Boesky agrees to plead guilty to an unspecified criminal count, pay a $100 million fine, and return his ill-gotten Wall Street profits; he was barred for life (sort of) from trading securities.

● 1987 - In the lobby of Beirut's American University Hospital a bomb hidden in a box of chocolates exploded. Seven people were killed including the woman carrying the box.

● 1990 - After German reunification, the (extended) Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland. This treaty also ends the war officially begun in 1939.

● 1991 - American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.

● 1991 - In Royal Oak, Michigan, fired United States Postal Service employee, Thomas McIlvane, goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.

● 1992 - Two hundred thousand Germans protest in Bonn against racist neo-Nazi violence and the deportation of asylum seekers.

● 1993 - CIA role in Haitian drug trade disclosed. U.S. media yawns; U.S. government declines to investigate itself.

● 1993 - Appeals court in Daytona Beach, Florida, rules that an African American couple was deprived of a fair trial by an all-white jury that compared blacks to chimpanzees and told racist jokes. Eugena and Derrick Powell had sued their insurance company to cover losses from a traffic collision with an uninsured motorist. The Powells wanted $235,000 for medical expenses and lost wages. but the jury awarded them less than $11,000 dollars. After the trial, a juror described the May 1992 deliberations, saying jurors frequently spoke of "niggers" and joked that the Powells' children were probably drug dealers.

● 1994 - U.S. experts visited North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections.

● 1995 - A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

● Roman Catholic Saints:● St. Lawrence● St. Alberic● St. Venaranda● St. Serapion● St. Clementinus● St. Dubricus● St. Hypatius● St. Jucundus of Bologna● St. Lawrence O'Toole● St. Modanic● St. Nicholas Tavelic & Companions, martyrs

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar● October 29 (Civil Date: November 14)● Martyr Anastasia the Roman.● St. Abramius the Recluse and his niece St. Mary of Mesopotamia.● St. Abramius, archimandrite of Rostov.● St. Anna of Constantinople.● Martyrs Claudius, Asterius, Neon and Theonilla of Aegae in Cilicia.● St. Abramius, recluse of the Kiev Caves.● New Martyr Athanasius of Sparta, at Muatanach.● Martyr Timothy of Esphigmenou Monastery on Mt. Athos.

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